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WARREN The attorney for Joseph S. Nohra Jr., former Liberty schools superintendent, said his client “emphatically and categorically” denies the charges that he was unlawfully bugging the school district office in 2018.
Nohra, 49, of Topper Hill Drive, Hubbard, was indicted by a special report of the Trumbull County grand jury Monday on six counts of interception of wire, oral or electronic communications and five counts of interfering with civil rights.
“Mr. Nohra emphatically and categorically denies the baseless allegations contained in the indictment,” attorney David Betras stated in a news release Tuesday. “My client is both bewildered and astounded that he now faces criminal charges for taking decisive steps to protect the taxpayers and looks forward to defending himself against these ludicrous accusations.”
WARREN The attorney for Joseph S. Nohra Jr., former Liberty schools superintendent, said his client “emphatically and categorically” denies the charges that he was unlawfully bugging the school district office in 2018.
Nohra, 49, of Topper Hill Drive, Hubbard, was indicted by a special report of the Trumbull County grand jury Monday on six counts of interception of wire, oral or electronic communications and five counts of interfering with civil rights.
“Mr. Nohra emphatically and categorically denies the baseless allegations contained in the indictment,” attorney David Betras stated in a news release Tuesday. “My client is both bewildered and astounded that he now faces criminal charges for taking decisive steps to protect the taxpayers and looks forward to defending himself against these ludicrous accusations.”
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The board voted 4-0 Tuesday to not forward the cases to the sheriff’s office.
In the election, 16 people voted at the board’s early voting center and then by mail, and 25 more voted either at the center or by mail and then went to their polling locations to vote again.
All of the double votes were detected, said Stephanie Penrose, board director.
“It was more confusion than trying to vote twice,” she said.
Board Chairman Mark Alberini added the board doesn’t “have any strong evidence or indications this was an attempt at fraudulent voting.”
At its Jan. 12 meeting, the board voted to get a formal written opinion on the issues from the county prosecutor’s office.
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Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins thumbs through the case file of convicted killer Kenneth Biros who was executed in December 2009.
Now that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has instructed lawmakers to choose a different method, local prosecutors are taking offense to the governor’s “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment in the state.
DeWine last week said it’s “pretty clear” there won’t be any executions in 2021, and he doesn’t think there is enough support in the Legislature to prioritize a switch in the execution method.
Ohio has an “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment, DeWine said. Yet some states and the federal government have managed to execute inmates successfully this year.